Tanisha Carino, Ph.D., the respected senior executive with more than two decades of experience in academia, government, and the private sector, joined the Milken Institute as executive director of FasterCures, the center devoted to improving the medical research system. Carino has been at the forefront of collaborative efforts to promote policies, research, and practices that support the fight against disease and improve the lives of patients. She most recently led the U.S. policy function for GlaxoSmithKline, a U.K.-based science-led global health-care company. Prior to that, she spent more than a decade with Avalere Health, where she founded the Center on Evidence Based Medicine. Previously, Carino worked in the Medicare program to improve access for its beneficiaries and support the development of real-world evidence. Carino earned her Ph.D. in health policy from Johns Hopkins University and is associate faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also completed a Fulbright fellowship in The Netherlands, where she was based at Erasmus University.